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rubbish. So far as I can learn, Greek bricks are not found there, 

 and few, if any, Bactro- Greek coins. Tradition is silent regarding it. 

 Julalpoor is a large modern village, built about sixty years ago by 

 Raja Jullal Khan, whose descendants still live in the neighbourhood. 

 It stands upon a spur from the salt range. The original town stood 

 upon the mountain at the distance of a mile from Julalpoor, in a very 

 strong and rugged position. It was about a quarter of a mile in length 

 by a hundred and fifty yards in breadth, built of undressed stone cemented 

 with mud ; in short, a collection of rude huts. It was called Girjauk, 

 was inhabited by the Rajpootra tribe of Junnooi, and was attacked and 

 destroyed seventy years ago by Sirdar Chirt Singh, grandfather of 

 Runjeet Singh. I carefully explored the ruins without discovering a 

 single stone bearing the marks of the chisel. No Greek or Bactro- 

 Greek coins are found there. If therefore it be Boukephala all traces 

 of the identity are lost. Yet it is very certain, that if Alexander 

 crossed at Russool, this must have been Boukephala. He halted and 

 celebrated the obsequies of the fallen opposite the crossing;* but he 

 of course built the cities where they would remain such, and not mere 

 congregations of obscure huts. 



It may be asked, might not Alexander have crossed the Hydaspes 

 eleven miles below Julalpore ? Upon this question, I am not prepared 

 to enter fully. I can hear of no circumstance to warrant the suppo- 

 sition. The river there is of great breadth, rather more than one and a 

 half miles during the monsoon, and as we have no evidence of Greek 

 sites either there or at Julalpoor and Moongh, I do not think it will be 

 very readily advocated. 



May not then the crossing have been eleven miles below Jelum 1 In 

 this there is no impossibility : but we know not a single argument in 

 favour of it. The river bed being there soft sand, it is impossible to 

 calculate the aspect of the river two thousand years back, as every 



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